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The wheeling-dealing sometimes goes too far—or at least offends someone more rapacious.

So it is with South Park, which edifies as it offends—or maybe edifies because it offends.

They, I believe, will want to impose a universal tax on great wealth simply because the inequality itself offends them.

Each side offends the other by seeming to justify their sense of doom.

Considering the 'sizable group' that it offends, the real owner should too.

The obelisk in the square of St. Peter's at Rome is erected in a way which offends against all the principles of statics.

With modesty, and yet with firmness, let me add, it offends against the Divine Law.

It is just that which offends me: that which my anger cannot pardon.

I do not want to vex you; and besides, we must speak gently, for mamma is asleep; but your whole manner offends me—'

"Nothing offends a woman so much as to be afraid of offending her," was her oracular reply, as she flitted over the sill.

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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to offends, such as: annoy, disturb, exasperate, aggrieve, horrify, and sicken.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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